Tbh I totally agree with this. I think Carlisle’s thoughts were more like "Edward is lonely and Rosalie and him are both in pain, maybe they can heal together eventually but it’s their choice" instead of "rape victim bride for my son", it was probably always an afterthought and not his main motivation of saving her.
Edward’s audacity makes me insane. “Yeah my dad found a young woman who was raped to death and turned her in hopes of her being my girlfriend” bro what?? Legitimately bonkers take. Carlisle was motivated by his usual compassion and goodness etc, there wasnt a secret plot to matchmake… i cant with this kid. Being permanently 17 makes u bonkers.
G actually has an endlessly long meta about this! The tl;dr is that neither of us thinks Edward is lying when he tells us Carlisle lowkey hoped he and Rosalie would get together. The actual quote (from chapter 18 of Twilight) is:
“Carlisle brought Rosalie to our family next. I didn't realize till much later that he was hoping she would be to me what Esme was to him — he was careful with his thoughts around me.”
Sure, sounds reasonable enough. Where it often gets distorted is that fandom/fanon likes to run with the worst-faith interpretation: the idea that Carlisle changed Rosalie with the sole and explicit intention of creating a mate for Edward. There's nothing to suggest this in the text (though it's not explicitly refuted, either, so up to some interpretation.) What Carlisle actually says during Rosalie's change in the Eclipse flashback, when he explains why he saved her, is "It was too much — too horrible, too much waste" and "I couldn't leave her," presumably referring to the tragedy of letting Rosalie die at such a young age. Note that he also states it will be up to vampire!Rosalie whether she wants to stay with the Cullens or leave.
I (G) have always interpreted that to mean he made a spur-of-the-moment choice to save her, and it only occurred to him later that "hey, she's around Edward's age, maybe they'll hit it off" (lol.) Still a liiiiittle gross considering how traumatized and upset she was, but not the mustache-twirling "mwahaha, I will abduct this rape survivor as Sexual Object For Son" motivations I often see imagined on tumblr.
tl;dr we'd describe it less as "a secret plot to matchmake" and more as "a secret (and slightly inappropriate) hope that his kids might fall in love." But we have no reason to doubt Edward's interpretation of Carlisle's thoughts here.
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nikki reed via instagram stories.
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If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.
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a quick paint of Rosalie of Twilight fame thanks to @rosella-writes
if you have suggestions of your fictional crushes send me an ask and ill see if I can paint them :)
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She just came by to let you know that you hurt her feelings :\
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